The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-09-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE PORTER
has resigned He will return TO his home in
Tennessee.
A CONTROLLING interest in the American
Sugar Refinery Company at San Francisco,
has been secured by the old minority stock
holders, including mon extensively engaged
in sugar-planting in the Sandwich Islands.
The parties are said 10 be tho same who led
the recent revolution at Honolulu
MRS CLEVELAND has written to Hon. A. s.
Hewitt Mayor OF New York City; Hon r
Beekman, President of the Board Of Alder
men, and Hon. James T. Fitzgerald, declin-
ing to deliver the flags presented by the citi-
zens and city government Of New York TO the
fire department The letter is in her own
handwriting and is as follows:
GENTLEMEN-I have received your pleasing
note requesting me on behalf OF the donors Of
certain flags to be presented to the New York
Fire Department, as well as in behalf Of the
citizens OF New York generally and the execu-
tive and legislative branches OF the city gov
| eminent, to deliver the colors mentioned TO the
department on such day in September as shall
suit my convenience. 1t would certainly afford
me pleasure TO contribute in any degree to the
significance of this occasion and 10 the sat
isfaction of the brave and gallant men
whose services are thus TO be recognized. I
stood when base my declination OF your kind
invitation upon my unwillingness to assume
that /, as the wife of the President, ought to
participate 30 prominently in public cere-
mony in which he has no part
The Chairman of the Aldermanic commit
tee appointed to make arrangements for Mrs
Cleveland's reception and entertainment says
that no disrespect was intended to the Presi-
dent by emitting his name from the invita-
ton
E. s WHEELER & Co., heavy importers Of
bar iron, steel, tin, etc, of New Haven, Conn
and the New Haven Wire Company, have
failed. The liabilities were figured at s., 0O0, :
600, and fears are expressed that the crash
will involve banks and business houses at
New Haven and elsewhere. +. s Wheeler &
Co. have branch houses in Baltimore, New
York, and Chicago.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY is going to
Ireland very shortly to make speeches on be-
half of the oppressed tenants
FROM Newfoundland come dismal accounts
of wreck and damage caused by the great
gale of August %. A number of vessels are
known to have been lost, and several others
are missing. The destruction Of boats, tackle,
etc, has been very great No estimate of the
number of lives lost has yet been received,
but il must be considerable
DISPATCHES from Cheboygan, Mich, re-
port the laundering Of the schooner Niagara,
OF the Australasia tow, near Whitefish Point
Thirteen lives were lost including the cap
tain his wife and family The Niagara was
built at Tonawanda, in 1878, for Winslow, of
Buffalo, and was owned by Mr.. Corrigan, Of
| Cleveland She was rebuilt in 1888, was
rated A 9, and valued at $4,000
THIRTEEN business houses, thirty resi-
dences, the Nepanee and Quebec Railway sta
ton, and the Mechanics Institute at New
burg, Ontario, were burned The loss 10
$3.50, 600 John Wells was burned in such a
manner that he cannot live.
r. G. Dun 4 Co, in their weekly review Of
trade, say:
Commerce and industry have improved, while
| speculation has slackened. Iron furnaces OF
| 13s, 725 tons capacity were in blast September
the largest output yet reported. The increase
| since year ago is l4.2 per cent. Evidence OF
| general Improvement comes from nearly
| all cities. Remarkably heavy distribution OF
| hardware and farmers supplies at Chicago and
| st. Louis, with activity OF banks, not from
| speculative demands, and reports of for
midable increase in shipments by the railroads
| from this city promise satisfactory returns Of
| fall trade. Money is generally active at in
| terror points and collections fair. The business
| failures during the week numbered for the
| United States 1872 for Canada %; total OF ia,
compared with 1919 last week and 17S in the cor
responding week of last year.
A MONTREAL telegram says: ~The Grand
Jury here has found a true bill against
Boodler McGarigle, Detective Pnkerton,
and Col Hickey, of Chicago, for conspiracy.
The only witness examined was James Bax-
ter, who made the charge Baxter was exam
ined at great length, ana after ten minutes
deli Iteration a unanimous bill was returned |"
The Spanish Government has released Mr..
Doane the American missionary who was
imprisoned at Manila